The author is a student at the Australian National University.

On Friday 28 March at 5:40pm in Australia, I received a Telegram message from my mother, back home in Yangon, in our family chat. She said “Hi”, and I responded back, “hello”. The next message was, ...

Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the co-founder of New Mandala. A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Oxford, over the past 20 years he has undertaken research in Thailand, ...

On 13 February a federal court in Argentina issued arrest warrants for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s State Administration Council (SAC), and Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State ...

Patrick Peralta is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he is also a Rackham Merit Fellow and a Graduate Student Affiliate with the Center for Southeast Asian ...

A recent report has touted the economic contributions of Grab and its related activities at nearly RM10 billion, or 0.5% of Malaysia’s GDP, in 2023. The foreword by Malaysia’s Minister of Digital ...

Jeremy Lim is a PhD candidate at the University of Malaya and the editor of a progressive Malaysian publication, Jentayu. He holds a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His ...

Tin Shine Aung is the Consulting Director at the Shwetaungthagathu Reform Initiative Centre (SRIc). SRIc conducts public policy research and analysis through its Sustainability Advocacy Lab to drive ...

Once deemed by most as politically invincible—and by others as “God’s anointed”— Rodrigo Duterte now finds himself imprisoned at The Hague, where he might spend his remaining years. Enforcing a ...

Nick Nostitz lived and worked in Thailand for 23 years as a photojournalist and writer, and has contributed extensively to New Mandala’s coverage of Thai political life and conflict since 2008. His ...

Clive Kessler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Islam and Politics in a Malay State: Kelantan 1838-1969 (Cornell U.P ...